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CARLING & ROQKWELL. Combined Coal Scuttle and Ash Screen.

Patented Oct. 31, 1865.

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U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. F. OARLING AND L. ROCKWELL, OF ELLENVILLE, NEW YORK.

COMBINED COAL-SCUTTLE AND ASH-SCREEN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,685, dated October31, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, A. F. GARLING and L. ROCKWELL, of Ellenville, inthe county of Ulster and State of New York, have invented a new andImproved Combined Goal Scuttle and Sifter; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, in which Figure l is a side sectional view of ourinvention, taken in the line w :r, Fig. 2; Fig 2, a plan or top view otthe same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention consistsin combining with a coal-scuttle or a coal-bod acylindrical oscillating screen and an ash-receptacle arranged in such amanner that ashes may be screened with the greatest facility withoutallowing the dust to escape from the device and the cinders dum ped ordischarged into the scuttle-compartment from the screen, so that theymay be thrown upon the tire from the scuttle, the whole forming a veryconvenient and economical device for household use.

Arepresents acoal-scuttleorcoal-hod, which may be constructed in muchthe usual form, and is provided with apartitiou-plate, B, having twodoors, O O, both of which are hinged at their upper edges, as shownclearlyin Fig.1.

In the upper part of the compartment D, formed by the partition-plate B,there is suspended on a shaft, a, a cylindrical screen, E, and saidcompartment is provided with a semicylindrical lid, F, which, whenclosed completely, covers the screen E. The portion of the compartment Dbelow the screen E constitutes an ash-receptacle. The shaft to isextended or prolonged at one end and bent at right angles with its mainportion within the screen to form a handle, G, by which the screen isoperated or oscillated.

The compartment D, at the side of the partition-plate B opposite tocompartment D, is the receptacle for coal or cinders.

In sifting ashes the doors 0 O are both closed, the lid F opened, andthe ashes poured ordumped into the screen E. The lid F is then closed,and the screen oscillated through the medium of the handle G until theashes are all sifted from the cinders, the latter being retained withinthe screen and the ashes passing through the latter into the lower partof compartment D. It the cinders are required for immediate use afterthe sifting operation, the

upper door, 1, is opened and the screen turned so that the cinders willbe discharged therefrom into compartment D, from which they may bethrown upon the tire; but it it is desired to get rid of the ashesbefore using the cinders, the lower door, 0, is opened and the ashesthrown outthrough compartment D.

The compartment D, it will be understood, may be used as an ordinarycoal-receptacle.

Thus by this simple airangement I obtain, at a small cost a combinedcoal-scuttle and ash-sitter.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- The combination of the cylindrical streen Ewith a coal-scuttle, A, provided with a partition-plate, B, having doors0 O, and all arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

A. F. OARLING. L. ROCKWELL. Witnesses:

FRANCIS OARLING, JNo. H. ELTINGE.

